Revisiting the film collaborations of John Berger and Michael Dibb upon the 50th anniversary of their landmark documentary series Ways of Seeing.
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William Klein's 1982 documentary The French screens in a reissued restoration and offers a masterful work of vérité filmmaking.
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Oscar winner Brigitte Berman discusses her newly restored documentary Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet and finding new audiences for the story of a jazz legend.
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a 2000 cult hit with its queering of a Christian icon. POV looks back at the doc, narrated by RuPaul, and considers its place within the
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“My name is Chantal Akerman. I was born in Brussels, and that’s the truth.” —Chantel Akerman in Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (1997) In 1975, a film by an unknown young Belgian
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The timeliness of a poem, painting, novel or film draws not only on its origin and response but also its capability to speak to the present long after the fact. This is
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Having a cinematic tradition that is inexorably linked to the documentary means that the battle between Canadian labour and multinational big business has been well-documented. Since its inception, documentary filmmakers working with
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Music fans can dial up nostalgia by revisiting one of the seminal concert documentaries, Elvis: That’s the Way It Is, which screens this week as part of Cineplex Events. This 1970 doc
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For many anglophones inside and outside of Quebec, the October crisis represents the first time many considered the unequal treatment of French Canadians within the country. We mark its 50th anniversary with
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Jazz on a Summer’s Day (USA, 85 min; 1959) Dir. Bert Stern and Aram Avakian Featuring: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Anita O’Day, Thelonious Monk, Jack Teagarden, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, Chico Hamilton,
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